Eirodziesma 2011: 5 Acts Qualify

Latvia – The first semi-final of the Latvian national final “Eirodziesma 2011″ for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf was held in Ventspils tonight. 10 songs competed for a place in the final. 5 directly qualified while the other 5 songs go to the second chance round. Out of the 10 non-qualifiers from the two semi-finals another 2 will get the chance to qualify for the final set to be held on February 26. These are tonight’s qualifiers:

Directly qualified for the Final:

D-Family – Daylight

Evija Sloka – Don’t stop the dance

Pieneņu vīns – You are

Jānis Stībelis – Let it be me

Blitze – Hop

In the Second Chance Round:

Ģirts Zebuliņš & Atis Zviedris – Rough enough

Sabīne Berezina – Let me be

Dace Upīte & Nikolajs Pizkovs – It’s not easy

Liene Bronuša – Love is like an aeroplane

Ineta Rudzīte & Uldis Timma – Walking on my tiptoes

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Among the qualifying entries is the song “Hop” written by Mārtins Freimanis, who died of the flu 2 weeks ago.

Latvia will compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest on May 12
In our own pre-Eurovision competition “The Eurovision Knockout 2011” Latvia will compete in Heat 11 against Hungary and Denmark

I am beginning to believe that Monika may win the Lithuanian NF, Morgan. She is a classy live singer. The Independent have a very good song too. I would have chosen Gintaré as the 3rd qualifier instead of Sasha. He’s a great live singer, but ‘The slogan of our nation’ is pretentious and over the top, imo.

i hope we wont have to wait long for lithuania and latvia in youtube, i already rewatched all 8 swedish songs (and downloaded from youtube yay) but SVT will delete all 4 who’re still in competition, in their official site you can only rewatch the four already out

Finally watched the entire show, here’s my opinion : the songs suck, only two are actually decent pieces of music, the rest goes from lame to crap and that’s me being nice right there… not to mention the very amateurish lives and some poor vocals, and you get why Sweden or Norway remain so popular… On the other hand, the show was fairly well hosted, a bit like the old Eirodziesma that made Latvia a great NF country, remember 06 and 07 for instance? Anyway here’s my ranking :

Well, certainly better than in neighbouring Lithuania. I like 3 acts that have qualified: Pieneņu vīns, Jānis Stībelis (love the drummer …) and Blitze. From those that did not qualify, I did not like enything although I admit that I enjoyed watching ‘Walking on My Tiptoes’ in a very, very wicked way …

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